Right off, we want you to know that you should be shameless when it comes to marketing your book. Your success as an indie author depends on it. But there is an art to pitching your book to agents, booksellers, media, bloggers, and ultimately to your readers. If you have a Facebook or Twitter account there are even rules to pitching there, especially on Twitter. You can read our take on that here. As you’re moving toward a marketing strategy for your book, including developing copy for your book summary, resist the urge to use the following words in your updates, tweets, pitches, elevator speeches, and in any of your other marketing endeavors. These words are overused, redundant, and don’t… [read more]
